[2024 Pingshun Attraction] Travel Guide for Chunhua Temple (Updated Sep)

Chunhua Temple

Chunhua Temple is located in Yanggao Village, Yanggao Township, Pingshun County, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province. According to the records of the "Pingshun County Annals" in the 32nd year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1693), it was built during the Tianbao period of the Northern Qi Dynasty (550~559). The mountains in the south and the north are towering, and the peaks are towering; the east and the west are close to the houses, and the farmhouses are densely covered; the temple is close to the deep valley, and the Zhanghe River flows slowly from here, and the Ganlin Highway runs through the east and west of the temple. The scenery here is unique and the transportation is convenient. The only remaining main hall is facing south, with a width of three rooms and a depth of six purlins. The single eaves and the top of the mountain are covered with tube tiles. The front and rear of the Ming Dynasty are divided into doors, and the brackets are made of four single copies, and the style is high. The beam frame is made of through-the-top Ming, the construction system is regular, the materials are standardized, the two ends of the beam are directly placed on the column head brackets, the flat Bo vertical roll cloud camel hump, the upper part is separated from the arch, and the flat beam melon column. The Song and Jin specifications are significant. In front of the main hall, there are two stone sutra towers in the Song Dynasty, which are more than 3 meters high, and the tower body is 1.8 meters. The plane is octagonal, and the harmony book is engraved with the "Zunsheng Tuoluoni Sutra" and "Diamond Prajna Paramita Sutra" in the third year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty (970)... On June 25, 2001, Chunhua Temple was announced by the State Council of the People's Republic of China as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units. Chunhua Temple